Word: phil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gallo was sighted at Umbertos Clam House in Manhattan's Little Italy on April 7 by a small-time racketeer who quickly spread the word. Most interested was Carmine ("Sonny Pinto") DeBiase, a soldier in the Mafia clan once headed by the late Vito Genovese. He recruited Phil ("Fat Fungi") Gambino, a distant relative of Carlo's, and two Brooklyn mobsters identified so far only as brothers...
...Gallo recognized him and cursed, "You son of a bitch," as DeBiase began shooting. The Brooklyn brothers opened fire from the clam bar over the heads of patrons to force everyone to duck for cover. DeBiase and the brothers fled in the confusion, apparently in a car driven by Phil Gambino...
...feats of airline skyjackers inevitably inspire imitation, but Chicago's rock radio station WLS plans to take the romance out of the idea for its listeners. News Director Phil Hayes promises that WLS reporting of air piracy will stress the severity of penalties involved, rewards offered by airlines and convictions obtained in other cases: "We will give as much coverage to the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of a hijacker as we give to the actual hijack...
Other Boston scores Phil Esposito, Ace Bailey, John McKenzie, Mike Walton and Don Marcotte...
...first period, two in the second and then hiked the count to 6-0 before the Blues broke into the scoring column. Mike Murphy banged in his own rebound to spoil goalie Gerry Cheever's shutout bid at 4:37 of the finale. Less than a minute later, Phil Roberto stole a Carol Vadnais pass and scored the other St. Louis goal...